Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 19:05:42 +0400 From: Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net> Cc: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> Subject: Re: RFC: Alternate patch to have true new-style rc.d scripts in ports (without touching localpkg) Message-ID: <20040731150542.GA5612@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <20040731145616.GA14576@rogue.acs-et.com> References: <20040731104933.GA1312@rogue.acs-et.com> <03C7D82F-E2F5-11D8-9C56-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> <20040731145616.GA14576@rogue.acs-et.com>
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On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 05:56:16PM +0300, Mike Makonnen wrote: > On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 03:24:56PM +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote: > > Lets be realistic: Nearly nobody wants his scripts to be sourced in the > > startup shell, especially not in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. People who really > > want to do this are experts that exactly know what they are doing, and > > are not easily confused. > > *sigh* You cannot arbitrarily declare that "nearly nobody wants his > scripts to be sourced in the startup shell". You have no idea of knowing > what a user might want to do with his system and what his level of > expertise is. That argument is against your position. If you have no idea, user (i.e. script) can do _anything_, I mean easily damage startup shell even without evil intentions. You know example - apache13. We need minimal protection, separating base scripts level and ports scripts level, I mean executing them in the subshells. There is rc.local (or a like) to do something with startup shell locally, not from inside ports system. -- Andrey Chernov | http://ache.pp.ru/
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